How legislations affect new taxonomic descriptions

Manuela da Silva; Philippe Desmeth; Stephanus N Venter; Yogesh Shouche; Andrey Yurkov

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2022.10.010

How legislations affect new taxonomic descriptions

Trends Microbiol. 2023 Feb;31(2):111-114. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.10.010. Epub 2022 Nov 7.

Authors

Manuela da Silva¹, Philippe Desmeth², Stephanus N Venter³, Yogesh Shouche⁴, Andrey Yurkov⁵

Affiliations

¹ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Fiocruz COVID-19 Biobank, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: manuela.dasilva@fiocruz.br.
² Belgian Science Policy Office, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁴ National Center for Microbial Resource, National Center for Cell Science, Pune, India.
⁵ Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.

PMID: 36357239
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.10.010

Abstract

Restrictions placed on the distribution of biological material by the legislation of countries such as India, South Africa, or Brazil exclude strains that could serve as type material for the validation or valid publication of prokaryotic species names. This problem goes beyond prokaryotic taxonomy and is also relevant for other areas of biological research.

Keywords: International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes; access and benefit sharing; culture collections; genetic resources; new species; prokaryotes.

MeSH terms

Brazil
India
Prokaryotic Cells*